Recreational player blog

Hey, good luck with your challenge.

First look at your graph - you bluff WAY too much. No need to bluf so much at micros. If you could post your stats for these 800 hands, everyone could help you way more.

Thanks but they will say it is too low of a sample.

But I'll give it a try!

Bankroll is now $0.36!

Lost a micro qualifier. ♦

Bankroll back to $1.25, got 14/104 in Micro qualifier, better money than Tokens right? ♦

Edit: Yeah I miss one place to get entry!

i have 500$+ , from 17c ♦

Hehe great haul grats, i'll reach that milestone eventually! ♦

You can do it man!!!

Good luck Sarkov!

Thanks both! Yes I will!

Ok now I know what 3bet means!

BB bet first, someone raise and someone else re raise!

And doing a session review before my next session. ♦

Ok busted again. ♦

I should really consider getting a bankroll first.

Ok its being a while since the last update.

Well things have been going a bit sideways, i deposited $20 on pokerstars grind it up to like $38 dollars and then got tilted, tried to play zoom and lost like all my profits.

So i decided to lose all my money on $1.5 hyper Turbo SNG heads up on pokerstars but thank god I did not lose it all but managed to grind my bankroll up again. I just push/fold like a crazy maniac in the HU SNG!

Once the villain had 200 chip i just fold until I got good cards, or any Ax and push, works wonders.

Anyway I think I played like 8000 hands so far, but most of it is not tracked, and if I had a software that tracked it I would be like break even or losing player on NL 2. X(,

So one day I just decided to make a new database to get a good looking graphs and i'll show it to you below.

Well what I learned so far, is maybe to tilt less, c bet on dry board, big hands for big pot, small hands for small pot, trying not to play from the SB and BB or if I play i'll raise as the preflop aggressor, and being aggressive when I was the preflop aggressor, that is cbet on the flop. Also i don't mind going all in with Ako if there is a SS playing like 25bb etc.

Of course i have leaks sometimes i limp my AA,AK,KK etc, and when someone raised, i 3bet them, and limping a bit often with other cards also one of my leaks I think.

One thing though I am using free poker database, but tried to configure the hud, but messed up so I play without hud.

Of course I can 3 table at once, but I go on autopilot and play just prenium hands, so I tends to play only 1 table since I don't have hud, and if my mood good I can 2 table!

My plan for the upcoming month is to reach gold on pokerstrategy and clear my first deposit bonus, still can deposit twice before 2 months but I'm out of money in real life, so biggie no clearing of bonus!

Busted my sports betting bankroll too, trying to chase after loses, mostly live betting. Yeah it sucks.

Well also other goals is too get 100bi for $1.5 sng heads up game and start grinding them, good for getting lots of VPPs and play good poker on NL2 currently, I'll be taking shot to next limit once I get the required bankroll. But mainly i'll be playing NL 2, till I get the BIs for heads up sng. Also sometimes the occasional 1FPP sng.

Anyway my graph below, mainly 1 tabling, and then 2 tabling sometimes. Not much volume right? I got to study. in one month or so I'll be taking exams and I can't fail or I won't get an internship to further my accounting career. I kind of messed up my interview on this one, going in a casual outfit rather than a smart one, luckily I think because of someone referring me they offered me a possible internship, if i sucks they won't hire me.

Okay graph as it is.
Edit: Deleted it. ♦

Ok cya on next update.

Double post.

Busted my first roll of $20.

My highest was $70, then with trying to get back losses, I tried $7, $15 hu sng but busted of course. Now back to just 1bi.

Poor me, i'm debating whether to put some of my life roll or just try to do something with the $2.

Life

Ok next update, it's been a while, took part in 2 exams, but honestly did not do well, was not well prepared and just wrote anything down, anyway i have free time now, about 2 months before results and to decide what to do.

Job wise, I think I nailed the interview in a bad way, so I don't think i'll be getting the internship soon, no biggie more time for poker.

Poker

Created an account on full tilt, and succeeded in building my roll to $20, the new to the game tables where you can only 2 table at most, is damn fishy, just wait for AA or limp with any and when you connect just go all in, at least one of them will call, if not more.

But I moved my roll to pokerstars because fpdb can't be used on full tilt ;(, and im winning like 7bb/100 on about 9k hands so far on NL2, bad right?

Mostly I think my mistake is trying to play more tables than I can handle. 2 is my optimum. Maybe 3 when I'm feeling good. 4 and I start to go autopilot. Still 2 tables sucks. Action are damn slow!

Ok, so i am going to learn poker more now, so I can catch an upswing faster.
And I'll put down some goals and try to beat them.

Monthly Goals

Play minimum 500 hands per day so, 16 days left: So 8000 more hands, total would be around 17k hands at the end of month,

Watch 1 video per day, so 16 videos at the end of the month.

Finished the beginner course at the end of the month, maybe next month if I happen to get busy.

Learn about ranges, and construct 3bet range, blind defense/steal range that will help me later on when I move up.

Go for gold here, should be achievable since I have more free time.

Ok cya all until next update, i'll have to look for my old dusty beginner's course now. ♠_evil:

Hope to see you wearing Gold very soon then Sarkov!

Busted roll again.

Now i will be play exclusively freeroll for July and see where I am at the end of July and decide what to do then.

Not much FPPs to use too.

Well, play the ultimate freeroll tonight and ship it! That should fix your problems!

Sorry to hear about you busting your roll though. But I'm convinced you'll be able to get back on track soon enough! Just keep playing and studying and you'll get there

Hehe yeah will be trying my luck later.

Thanks, i'll keep on going! I'll get there eventually. ♦